About 20 applications were brought before the judge during Thursday’s sitting of the emergency domestic violence court in Dolphin House, Dublin. Photograph: Stephen Collins/Collins
A woman who says she is in fear of her ex partner after he allegedly did “horrible things” to her has obtained a protection order.
An armed plain-clothes garda accompanied the woman to the emergency domestic violence court in Dolphin House, Dublin, this week and told Judge Gerard Furlong she believed the man’s threats are “real”.
The woman said the man has followed her on the streets, smashed up her home and sent abusive text messages.
He did horrible things to her in the past, she said, and when it “got really bad” she had to move house with their baby, who he does not see.
“It’s not about his baby, it’
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